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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-04-29
TIME TABLES.
,...poli., ". & IL, Railroad

May end. 1887, passenger trains
"a Ea3 az. l'.y,,T'is AS follows
A'e A"''i .gRTyE IN BALTIMORE
.sg issAP0hs. Mail nm. 800 a. IN.
y. -.a'.btgga d. ~ Accom- .........., 9,45 a. m.
- ....5~e5y, =, 80, Nail.........l.4S p. IN.
l.a.~-' L Sg5p m. Accom"".....5.5O p. m
81 80 ~. d,i,I leave Annapolis at $50 a.
Tram arrive 10 IS a; m, and 6.S3 p. m m
~ Lb p l M. I,. are run between baltimore
gss Sg1 On ali the above trains, evorv
anlgh it ,.,,igbt tuesday and Friday at 800
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-10
Cheese Made from Potatoes.
American ANALYST.

A foreign paper says that cheese
made from potatoes in Thuringia and
Saxony. After having collected guam
tity of potatoes of good quality, giving
preference to the large, white kind, they
are boiled in a caldron, and after becom-
ing cool they are reduced to pulp, either
by means of graaer or mortar. To five
pounds of this pulp, which ought to be
equal as possible, is added one pound of
sour meat and the necessary quantity of
salt. The whole is kneaded together
and the mixture covered up and allowed
to lie three or four days according to the
season. At the end of this time it is
kneaded anew and the cheeses are placed
in little baskets, when the superfuous
moisture escapes. They are then allowed
to dry in the shade, and placed in layers
in large vessels, where they remain for
fifteen days. Three kinds are made. The
first and most common is made AS detail
ed above; the second with four parts of
potatoes and two parts of curdled milk
the third with two parts of potatoes and
four parts of COW or eve milk.
These cheeses keep fresh for number
of years, provided they are placed in a
dry place and we'll closed vessels.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-10
TIE WAR STRENGTH OF EUROPE.

How Various Nations Would SITS id in Case Of
an Appeal to Arms-The Forces of the Seven
Chief Powers
At the end of every year tables that
deal more or less fully with the strength
of the country are published by several
German and Austrian statisticians; and
as these tables have just appeared, it is
possible by their aid to arrive at toler-
able accurate estimate of the forces which,
in event of an outbreak of hostilities in
1887, could be put into the field. The
figures which we are about to give have
been derived for the most part from Off
cial documents and, in cases in which
official documents have not been forth
coming, the estimates have been furnish
ed by specialists who have the best avail
able information.
The following table shows, first, the
number of men held in permanent readi-
ness for war; and second, the number of
men that could be called under the col
ors in case of need. The second column
of figures includes, it should be added,
only trained soldiers, and does not take
account of those reserves which could be
prOvidad nv n 1ayae an mqaaa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-10
Saved Their Lives.
imagine.

When Circusman Cole sold his stock III
New Orleans the other day, three dun
ring horses that he had owned for years
went by mistake. Mr.. Cole at once bought
them back, saying that he would never
consent to have the horses become the
property of any one who would make
them work, and that he had decided to
put them to painless death. He pro-
posed bleeding them to death, but w. B.
Leonard, a liveryman proposed that the
use of chlOrOfOrm would be better and
less painful mode. This was finally de-
cided upon and a reliable man procur
ed, who was to have performed the opera
ton.
They were all collected in the circus
tent. There were Cole, Leonard, the
riders, and the clowns, the ringmaster, the
tumblers, the leapers, and the three pet
duns. Calling the little mare by name he
told her to kiss them all goodbye. The,
intelligent animal, stretching forward
her neck, kissed each one. This was
more than they could stand, and the sac
rifce was put off. Mr.. Cole had no place
to take them to, so Mr.. Leonard promis
ed to find some one who would assume
charge of them, under guarantee
never to work them, but to
keep them in good order till age should
claim them for the grave.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-10
Striking Resemblance.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta CoDSti 'utiOn.
Editor Glesaner, of the Americus Re-
corder, used to unbosom himself when
the scads came in pretty freely, and his
personal "reminiscences formed large
part of these delectable variations. Said
he, as he wheeled that old arm chair to
the window:
81 had funny experience with cir
Gus advance agent once in Illinois. My
brother was running paper at Quincy,
and I was running two papers, one In
Clinton and another down at Kenworth.
The agent struck Quincy first and saw rny
brother, who resembles me very closely in
personal appearance. In concluding
the bargain for space, the circus man
learned that my brothers name was Chess
ner.
Coming on to Clinton he dropped into
my office.
"'This is Mr.. Glessner?'
eyes, SIR
CT met your brother in Quincy
"Then he told his business, and we
agreed on the price, and he went his
way.
''In a week he struck Kenworth, and
happened to be down there looking after
my paper there.
''Walking in, he asked if I was the pro-
prietor, and I noticed that he eyed me
very closely.
'Your name, sir?"
"'Glessner.'
"Well,' he said, heaving deep sigh, /
have seen good many twins, but I'll be
id if you three Glessners don't bear the
strongest family resemblance of any men
i ever saw"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-10

last one successful. It is in this direc-
ton that more errors and mistakes are
made in mine examinations than in any
other.
When men here read that Prof. So-and-
so has made report on any certain mine,
and says that the average value of the
ore is some fancy sum, and that the total
value of ore in sight is another fancy
sum, they smile. Perhaps they remem-
Der the reports made a few years ago,
during the boom by one noted professor,
on the Little Pittsburg, wherein he stated
that there were 100000 in sight; Or a
report on the Robinson, by another noted
professor, wherein he stated there was
$8,0O0,0OO in sight-when in neither case
were there as many cents in sight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-10
The Presidents Mother.
BROOKLYN Magazine.

The Cleveland family is in its best
sense clannish one, tenacious in fratern-
al affection and beautifully loyal to home
ties. The father died in 1854, when the
president was oily 16 and his sister, Rose
Elizabeth, was yeers of age. The meth
er was singularly strong character
the possessOr of intellectual and moral
force and great dignity. She reared her
children to honor her and to love one an
other, and in their maturer years they
have not departed from her precepts.
Though the brothers and sisters have liv-
ed apart they have experienced a closer
kinship than is generally the case in unit
ed households.
The love and veneratiOn shared by all
the group for their mother, and the deep
grief they felt in her death, is living
bond between them, and one never to die
while they are alive. The last time they
met there was at tle funeral of Mrs
Cleveland, and left the younger sister the
sole occupant of the house. Eager hos
pitality was offered her in the homes of
her brothers and sisters, but she preferred
to stay in the house which had become
hers, and renew her work in her chosen
field. She was not stranger in the
place, as her elder brothers and sisters
had become by their long absence from
it, but everyone knew and respected her,
and her few chosen friends were not far
away. She had, too, the prestige of her
parents fame in Holland Patent, and this
was rich legacy. Her father had died
three weeks after his removal there to be-
come the pastor of the Presby terrain
church, but his character as minister
aud man was well known in that region,
and III his short acquaintance with the
villagers he had endeared himself to
them. Mrs. Cleveland lived there nearly
twenty years after his death, and her
worth is fully appreciated by the villag-
ers. She was a noble woman, intensely
self-rellant, courageous, and religious. A
southerner reared in luxury-the only
child of wealthy merchant of Balti-
more-she had met the disasters of life
that followed her husbands death with
such fOrtitude and rare independence as
made her life a marvel to thCse about her.
It was only because she had been bred in
the circle of life which was hers, and had
come from -uch family and home, that
she was able to meet misfortune as she
did.
Mrs. Cleveland's ardent desire-often
representatives, to leave the village some
expression of her goodwill and appreci
alton of the kindness shown her in her
days of trouble, and her wish was to give
fund for library. She expected that
the estate of her son Frederick would
provide for this trust, but after her death,
when it was found that it would not, her
son Grover found means for the purchase
of the five hundred odd volumes now in
the library, and bearing the inscri ption:
Donated to the memory of Mrs. Ann
Cleveland, by her children"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-10

the material of this Chicago romance
adapts itself to the wants of the writer's
of fiction.
What better study of human motives
could Mr.. Henry James desire than he
could make in novel to be called 1.-THE
Chicagoans," with Spies, Miss Van Zandt
and the sheriff as his central figures? Mr..
Howells could pick up his gray goose
scalpel and lay bare the soul of the would
be bride in ga Chicago Woman's Reason"
Mr.. Cable could make delightful study
of lovemaking in dialet through the wire
netting of q Jail, and Mr.. Bunner could
leap gently up to the climax through
series of semi-historical chapters under
some such title as "The Story of Lake
side House." Brander Matthews, could,
perchance unable to leave New York,
skillfully reproduce the universal
comment of representative society
through the mouths of his perennial fav-
orites, Dear Jones, Baby Van Rensselaer,,
and the duchess of Washington square.
As for English novelists, they will GER
tainly do well to turn their attention to
this prolific subject. Mrs. Besant could
produce an absorbing tale, full of blood
thirsty and beerthirsty anarchists, under
some such tale as "The World Goes
Very Queerly There" and Mr.. William
Black could return to the full power of
his early days in "The Strange Adven-
lures of Marriage License" But I'M
doubleday the browning work of this sub
juct would come from the pen of this
great genious, Robert LOWS Stevenson,
under the title of "The Anarchists" in
which Miss Van Zandt would form strik-
ing parallel to the hayward Claro in "The
Dynamiter," and the urbane but potent
Sheriff Matsou would wholly overshadow
his Invariably Serene Highness Prinbe
Florizel of Bohemia. 1t is to be hoped
that all writer's of fiction will turn their
eyes westward, for there can be no longer
any doubt that Chicago, like Bunthorne,
is charged with more innocent amuse-
ment than the casual spectator would
imagine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-10
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN
SUNSET.
BIZ ELLEN ". CARY.


The sunset falls on shore and stream,
The waves give back its fash ana gleam
The boatman rests upon his oar,
The two flat down the stream once more.
Shallow and rapid. all are gone.
The ripping stream flows smoothly On.
The little hands that at their side
Had daobled in the flashing tide:
The little lips thatsfor while
Had caused the furI owed cheeks to smile;
A il, all are gone. and in the boat.
To. ether and alone, they float.
The silver lies upon their bair.
But now they feel no fear nor cars
The pillows surge and tumult cease
Their boat rides on in perfect peace.
Their eyes turn backw ard up the stream.
Toward the mountains early glenn.
He sees the lovely mai len stand,
And reaches out to her his hand.
She sees youth come down the stream,
With ripple soft, and plash and CLEAN
Yet when he views her silver hair,
He thinks that she has grown more fair
The wrlnkled hands and furrowed brow
Seem like sweeter vision now.
And she TO- gets that he is old.
While his strong hands her own enfo!d.
She says. Give gave my life to you,
Never vas boatman half SO true"
The rivers tide sweeps gently ON,
The couple down the stream have gone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-10


that had the shocks tied with wool
Irvine.
The othez day began husking, bat
broke the machine, and have not repaired
it yet. hope to get the corn husked in a
month.
will not grow corn if 1 have to husk it
by hand, but I should not like to have
much corn shelled off by the machine (as
your article speaks of, for the corn keeps
better IN the crib than it will in any other
way.
Five years ago 1 had lot of corn in
the month of February. AS it seemed to
be very dry shelled it with a corn-shell-
er and put it in the granary. After 1t
had been there six weeks l examined it
and found it was heating badly, and about
sixty bushels were spoiled. 1 fear that
threshed corn will spoil in about the same
way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-10
FARM NOTES.

All fowls that feather slowly are usual
ly hardy. For instance, the Brahmas.
It is owing to the fact that the drain up
on the system OccasiOned by quick feath-
ering does not weaken them. Slow feath-
ering while growing is indicative of hard
mess.
Cows need light, not only for their own
health and comfort, but because good
butter can not be made from milk of
COWS kept in dark stables. Air light,
cleanliness and warmth are four essen
tials of COW stables where they are kept
for profit.
The height of the honey flow in Cuba
is from the middle of December to the
middle of February, and much honey is
gathered throughout the year, but the
natives have not yet mastered the art OF
raking and separating it so its flavor is
preserved.
The farmers of South Carolina have
concluded that they can no longer raise
rice with profit. 1t is very difficult TO
obtain reliable labor for the rice fields.
During the last few years several other
cereals have come into use in the place
of rice, and the demand for it has in
creased.
If the new cockerel you have just par-
chased fights with the others shut him up
in small, dark coop in a warm place for
week or ten days, feeding sparingly all
the time. After the time has elapsed
taken him out and put him in with the
rest, and the chances are he will not fight
again.
There is more wool grown on each
sheep than formerly, the averag having
doubled in twenty years. In 1880 the
product was two and one half pounds per
sheep, while in 1885 it had risen to five
pounds. This is due to the grading up
of the common focks and improving
them with the use of merino rams.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-10
Trees and Billiards..

Prof. Chas. E. Bessey, treating on the
influence of trees upon billiards, writes
In the American Agriculturist for Feb
ruary:
+ / have been much interested in watch
ing the effect of tree planting upon the
billiards.. The blizzard drives along the
surface of the ground, and it has for ages
and ages found no tree to halt or veer it.
the settlers on tho plains planted trees,
however. and these trees new stand as OBJ
stacles to the full sweep of the ice-laden
wind. A few days ago, as blizzard swept
over the country, 1 passed through a
loosely planted grove of trees, Cotton
woods, Silver Naples, Green Ashes, ETC.,
and noticed with pleasure that among the
trees the violence of the wind was greatly
reduced, and the flakes of snow dropped
lazily to the ground, where they rested as
contentedly as if they had fallen upon
the tree-covered hills of New England.
AS soon as l passed out of the grove I
had to face again the furious flakes driv-
ing horizontally in their mad career over
the earth.
AS often as 1 passed through little
grove of trees, l found that I left the
blizzard; but as soon as I emerged from
fury. This bit of experience is dupli-
Gated thousands of times every day upon
the plains. The tree-planter has routed
the blizzard wherever he has set his little
army of trees. The blizzard tyrant no
longer rules at will over ali the Missis-
sippi Valley. Wherever a grove has
| come into existence there the billiards.
scepter has been broken. True, he rules
| as fiercely as ever outside of the groves
but as these enlarge his dominion con
tracts. When once the groves are ap-
| proximately continuous, and when once
| they have grown to greater heights, the
blizzard will be a thing of the past The
| settler upon the plains need not fear the
blizzard for more than half dozen
years if he calls to his aid the friendly
| Cotton wood, Maple, Ash and Elm. They
alone can vanish this terror of the west
ern winter. Let every settlers motto be
| ''Trees rather than billiards."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-10
MINING EXPERT FRAUDS.
How Their Reports Are Obtained in Colorado
and Hcw the Reports Differ.

How Their Reports Are Obtained in Colorado
and Hcw the Reports Differ.
Denver Special: Some considerable
AMUSEMENT was created to-day in the
chamber of commerce by story told of
the sale of Colorado prospect to st.
Louis parties. 1t appears that they were
unwilling to accept representations made
to them, in which they were wise, and
wanted report made by an expert of
their own choosing. The choice of the
expert and his report were the amusing
things. 1t appears that one of the parties
contemplating the purchase has nephew,
or SEINE other relative, living in Denver,
and they chose him as the expert. He
is young man about 20 years old,
engaged in the scientific and arduOus
labor of driving street car. According
to his own frank statement he doesn't
know a BANKED thing about a mine," his
only experience in mining way having
been obtained while shoveling ore into a
quartz mill for about four weeks. But he
examined the 'mine," and made q report
upon which the sale was made.
An illustration of the difficulty met in
doing such an apparently simple thing as
sampllng the ore in the mine, which
means to select samples showing the aver
age value of the ore, came to my notice
only day or two since. Denver cap
italist, miner of twenty-five years. e1-
perience, wanted to Learn the value of the
ore in certain gold mine now lying idle.
but offered for sale. He sent miner of
long experience to sample the ore, and
the result was the value ascertained to be
Sc per ton. Records of its previous pro-
duction showed that its average value had
been $40 per ton. and he could hardly be-
lieve that il had fallen as low as reported,
so he sent another miner to resample it.
That time the result was $50 per ton.
Disguised then, he donned mining suit
and sampled it himself, and found the
value to be so per ton. Each man had
tried to get fair sample, and only the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-10
A BAND OF YOUNG ROBBERS.
The Oldest is Ten Years Old and the Youngest

The Oldest is Ten Years Old and the Youngest
Six.
One of the youngest bands of robbers
that has ever existed in civilized com
munity was discovered here last evening,
writes Wilkesbarre, Pa, correspondent
of the Cincinnati Enquirer. The names
of those composing the gang are Willie
Miller, Michael Conagnan, Frank Neuer,
George Dorsey and Willie Murphy.
The oldest is 10 years, and the young.
est, Murphy, is only six. The lads are
the sons of respectable and well TODD
people. Miller's father is worth $I59, 1000
The young thieves built shanty in the
suburbs, which they furnished with g.
stove and chairs. Here they met daily
and laid plans to rob business houses.
They conducted their operations in very
shrewd and ingenious way. They would
first make an inspection of the store they
intended to rob. Two of the boys would
enter store and ask for business cards.
While in the place they would locate the
money drawer, and about O'Clock in the
evening, when there were but few clerks
around, they would call again. One boy
would rush into the store and call the
proprietor or clerk oatside, saying man
had fallen dead on the pavement The
other boy would then enter the place and
rifle the money drawer. If the propri-
etOr should return before the second boy
got out the latter would play innocent by
offering papers for sale. Philip O'Neill,
an eccentric old hotel keeper, was in the
habit of keeping 5000 or $500 in
gold behind the bar. One evening the
child thieves called. Murphy opened the
front door and asked O'Neein il he
.%o1 L0
man said 'No. murphy then commenced
ed him out, and then he got to the door.
Murphy threw a SNOWFALL at him, O'Neill
then followed the boy into the street.
This is just what Murphy wanted. Mil
Ter who was hiding near by steppid into
the bar room while the old man was quar-
reling with Murphy and stole the bag of
gold, amounting te $500; from behind
the bar. Some of the treasure was found
under the floor of the shanty this morning
On another occasion the boys went into
a grocery store and told the proprietor
that smoke was issuing from out of the
second story windows. The excited gro
ceryman rushed out into the street, and
during his absence one of the boys
took a roll of bills, $3.50, from q drawer
In the safe, the door of which was open
at the time.
About forty merchants were robbed
in this way, and it is estimated that fully
5000 were stolen. The police we're pow
erless. They were thrown com pletely
off the track, as the extreme youth of the.
boys shielded them from suspicion.
Detection came at last. Little Murphy
was caught in the act OF robbing the
money drawer of Stern d Cos store. He
confessed all and Implicated his COM
panions.
The boys agreed that as soon as their
booty reached $1,000 they would take q
trip to Europe. shoe box full OF half
dime novels was found in the shanty.
Whenever raid was to be made the two
boys drawing the lowest number were
elected to do the job. ALI the boys are
now in jail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-10
Objects to the Thresher
Country Gentleman.

L wish to give my experience, as,
take it one year with another, threshed
corn will heat and spoil. For many
years have husked corn by hand-with
all the trouble of sore fingeas and crack
ed hands, cold, frosty mornings and bad
weather; and many moonlight night
have husked corn till II O'Clock, and
sometimes o'clock in the morning. This
was hard work, but I did it many
time.
l finally gave up raising corn, and grew
peas instead. So got rid of husking,
In this way did not have corn fodder,
and could not keep my land clean, nor
could grow SO good crop after peas
Is after corn.
In the year 1877 had twelve acres of
corn, could not find help to husk it, SO
1 bought a husking machine and had
four men to help, and we husked the
twelve acres in three days. had alb out
1000 bushels Of corn in as good shape as
any man could put it-silk and husk all
picked off clean, and stalks left in good
shape. little was shelled, and, being
dry, I took it to mill. I have used this
machine ten years. Some years the sea-
son was very damp, and then the shelled
corn had to be taken care of, or it would
heat and spoil. Put the good corn in
corn crib and it keeps well, if it is sorted
over and the poor cora fed out.
To-day there are twelve acres of corn in
my barn. It was put there the last week
of October. have been doing my fall
work, letting the corn go till had more
time. 1t was thrown up in the bay with
horse hay-fork, taking five or six shocks
at pitch, and then moved away as wheat
or other grain. It has kept well, being
very dry when put in the barn-so dry